Resources
Stories and advice
Articles, videos, and other content about growing your SaaS.
How to get startup ideas
Idea stage
Paul Graham
The idea maze
Idea stage
Chris Dixon
The next big thing will start out looking like a toy
Idea stage
Chris Dixon
Ideas are just a multiplier of execution
Idea stage
Derek Sivers
How to startup
Idea stage
Paul Graham
Fear of bad ideas
Idea stage
Seth Godin
Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done”
Problem-Solution Fit
Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan
The product before the business
Problem-Solution Fit
Bram Kanstein
MVP: Quickly Validate your Start-Up
Problem-Solution Fit
Will Dayble
Zero to Validating a SaaS: A Step-by-Step Recap
Problem-Solution Fit
Brian Casel
Create products that people love by validating your idea first
Problem-Solution Fit
Hiten Shah
How Superhuman Built an Engine to Product-Market Fit
Product-Market Fit
Rahul Vohra
How I launched the #1 most upvoted product of all time on Product Hunt
Product-Market Fit
Bram Kanstein
The Playbook for Achieving Product-Market Fit
Product-Market Fit
Dan Olsen
The only thing that matters
Product-Market Fit
Marc Andreessen
The Story Behind How Pocket Hit 20M Users with 20 People
Scale / Growth stage
First Round
Unit Economics
Scale / Growth stage
Sam Altman
How to build a growth team – lessons from Uber, Hubspot, and others
Scale / Growth stage
Andrew Chen
“People need my product!” (But do they want it?)
Problem-Solution Fit
Justin Jackson
How Google sets goals: OKRs
Scale / Growth stage
Rick Klau
Customer lifetime value (CLTV): how to model it, how to measure it
Scale / Growth stage
Thomas MacThomas
Vanity Metrics vs. Actionable Metrics
Scale / Growth stage
Eric Ries
There's always time to launch your dream
Idea stage
David Heinemeier Hansson
Get out of the way: give users what they want
Problem-Solution Fit
Dave Morin
Minimum Viable Product: a guide
Problem-Solution Fit
Eric Ries
If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good.
Problem-Solution Fit
Paul Buchheit
Product Hunt Began as an Email List
Problem-Solution Fit
Ryan Hoover
We Don’t Sell Saddles Here
Product-Market Fit
Stewart Butterfield
How to create a profitable Freemium startup
Scale / Growth stage
Andrew Chen
You have acquisition interest – now what?
Scale / Growth stage
David Cohen
My favorite business model
Scale / Growth stage
Fred Wilson
Product > Strategy > Business Model
Product-Market Fit
Fred Wilson
How to use product loops to supercharge your startup
Product-Market Fit
Dharmesh Raithatha
Idea to Paying Customers in 7 Weeks: How We Did It
Problem-Solution Fit
Joel Gascoigne
9 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Validated Their Business Idea
Problem-Solution Fit
Anand Srinivasan
5 Steps To Choose Your Customer Acquisition Channel
Product-Market Fit
Brian Balfour
How I take an idea and turn it into a product
Idea stage
Dal Adamson
How to conduct a growth experiment
Product-Market Fit
Thomas MacThomas
Good and Bad Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur
Idea stage
Dustin Moskovitz
What to do when your customers don't want your product
Product-Market Fit
Dharmesh Raithatha
A checklist to help green-light your next idea
Idea stage
Rob Hope
Idea first, startup later.
Idea stage
Justin Potts
How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Problem-Solution Fit
Nir Eyal
50 Groundbreaking Startup Ideas
Idea stage
Tim Finnigan
What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs
Scale / Growth stage
Reid Hoffman
You are not late.
Idea stage
Kevin Kelly
The Spark File
Idea stage
Steven B. Johnson
How and Why to Start A Startup
Idea stage
Sam Altman & Dustin Moskovitz
Three ways to tell if you’ve found a breakout market
Idea stage
Hiten Shah
Better Brainstorming: The Most Effective Ways to Generate More Ideas
Idea stage
Aja Frost